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ophthalmology

field of medicine treating eye disorders
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Summary

ophthalmology is a medical specialty[1]. ophthalmology ranks in the top 5% of medical specialty entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,846 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: academic discipline[3]
  • Subclass of: medicine[4], ophthalmology and optometry[5]
  • Part of: ophthalmology and optometry[6]
  • Commons category: Ophthalmology[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Ophthalmology[8]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: healthcare:speciality=ophthalmology[9]
  • Described by source: Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Pauly–Wissowa[12], Otto's encyclopedia[13], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14], Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia[15], Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[16], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[17]
  • Hashtag: ophthalmology[18]
  • Practiced by: ophthalmologist[19]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[20]
  • Social media followers: 10,158[21]
  • P10203: 2731[22]

Why It Matters

ophthalmology has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] ophthalmology is known by 68 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Allvar Gullstrand Doheny Eye Institute José Rizal L. L. Zamenhof medicine Ragnar Granit UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute Veronika Kurilová Walter Rudolf Hess

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Directory of Open Access Journals. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . All Science Journal Classification Codes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q21887
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  2. 10w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-08-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Basisklassifikation → 44.95
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Basisklassifikation: 44.95, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/59769852|Augenheilkunde (#59769852)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/1786|Basisklassifikation]"
  3. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Q295322
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  4. 15w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 4566
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Oxford classical dictionary id: 4566, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107286693|ophthalmology (#107286693)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Cl"
  5. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0001063-oftalmologie
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  6. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Dewey decimal classification → 617.7, 617
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → medicine, ophthalmology and optometry
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 7287, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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